Niamot Ali Enayet | 2014-03-22 00:00:00
Success of a city predominantly depends on the efficient delivery of urban services of which efficient transportation system is of crucial importance. An adequate and efficient transport system is a pre-requisite for sustainable economic development. Dhaka is fast becoming one...
Abu Sayed Md. Shaykhul Islam | 2014-03-22 00:00:00
Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is an alternative source of financing for public infrastructure development where the main objective is to reduce government's borrowings and overdependence on foreign loans. The meaning of PPP is clear within the name itself i.e., it is...
Badrul Ahsan | 2014-03-22 00:00:00
Thousands of handloom units in the country are facing closure for want of cotton, dyes and chemicals at fair price, shortage of capital and absence of modern cloth processing centres, industry insiders said. They said around 1,92,000 handloom units out...
Ismail Hossain | 2014-03-22 00:00:00
Bottled mineral water 'Shanti', produced and marketed by the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority, (DWASA) is failing to attract consumers in the absence of a proper marketing policy. The authority has, however, said it is not planning to make...
Jamal Uddin | 2014-03-22 00:00:00
Multinational companies in Bangladesh are in a scramble to capture market share of emerging e-commerce business of different classified products. The companies are investing millions of dollars, mainly in the advertisement sector, to explore the untapped market of the country...
Babul Barman | 2014-03-22 00:00:00
The stock market plummeted for the fourth straight week that ended Thursday with participation remained sluggish as profit booking and panic sale dominated throughout the week. The week featured four trading sessions instead of five due to public holiday on...
Nehal Adil | 2014-03-22 00:00:00
Panama Canal was a geographical gift to USA after the Monroe Doctrine cemented its domination of the western hemisphere. Yet it had to promote secession of Panama from Colombia to get the right to the isthmus to dig the canal....
Md Mukitul Islam | 2014-03-22 00:00:00
Women in our society are constrained into a cycle of constant violence that seems never ending. Prior to birth they are faced with sex selected abortion (aborted if girl), during infancy they experience female infanticide and less access to resources...
Md Abdul Latif Mahmud | 2014-03-22 00:00:00
Like the economy of other countries, banking sector plays a vital role to the national economy in Bangladesh. It contributes to many arms of the economy like agriculture, industry, power, transport, trade service and so on. The scenario of banking...
Md Shamsul Arefin | 2014-03-22 00:00:00
The emergence of new modes of transports over the last few years has sparked controversy on safety ground and energy issues as well as environmental pollution concerns. Mainly, these new modes are batter-run, Easy Bike/Battery-run-rickshaws and jerry-built modes like Nosimon-Korimon...
Adnan M L Karim | 2014-03-22 00:00:00
When my maternal grandfather travelled to Dhaka from his village home in 1951, he was a young man accompanied only by his dreams and aspirations. On 6th March, 2014 he made the journey back for the last time never to...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-03-22 00:00:00
Those who love to be nostalgic and paint the past as "Ram Rajya" (kingdom of the Ramayana-famed Ram) must not be reluctant to admit that there was a time when burglary was quite common in rural areas. The burglars usually...
from Syful Islam | 2014-03-21 00:00:00
KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 20: Taking advantage of the suspension of Bangladeshi manpower recruitment by most of the Middle Eastern countries, the middlemen are cheating poor jobseekers and increasing their sufferings by keeping them stranded in the airports. Lured by the...
ZM Aminul Islam | 2014-03-21 00:00:00
JHENIDAH, Mar 20: A five-day festival of remembrance (Smaran Utsab) on Bengali Sufi saint Lalon Fakir arranged by District administration, Kushtia, concluded on the premises of Lalon Academy at Chheuria village in Kumarkhali upazila on Wednesday night. Ashok Kumar Biswas,...
Masum Billah reviewing the book | 2014-03-21 00:00:00
Bangladesh Share Market: Looking Ahead After Two Big Crashes is quite a big book of 484 pages with seventeen chapters accommodating the share market scams, the historical background, their causes, present status, impact on micro and macro-economies, and impact on ...
Md. Joynal Abdin | 2014-03-21 00:00:00
The traditional agrarian economy of Bangladesh is set to be transformed into an industrial one. According to statistics, contribution of industry to Bangladesh's gross domestic product (GDP) is increasing day by day. It was 21.7 per cent in 1991, 25.9...
Shahana Bilkis | 2014-03-21 00:00:00
Over the last three decades Bangladesh has been undergoing rapid urbanisation. This has created mounting accommodation problem in the major cities. Capital city Dhaka is home to some 15 million people. One study shows nearly 85 per cent of them...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-03-21 00:00:00
Civilisations have been always in the making on the banks of rivers. If rivers had undergone mighty changes for some reasons, civilisations ceased to exist. Mohenjodaro and Harappa tell a tale of one such devastation of the great Indus civilisation....
Sarwar Md. Saifullah Khaled | 2014-03-21 00:00:00
Political instability harms the services sector more than any other sector of the economy. The sector's contribution to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at present is about 50 per cent in the economy of Bangladesh. About 31 per cent of...
FE Online Report | 2014-03-20 00:00:00
Stocks rebounded Thursday, breaking fifth session’s losing streak with turnover dropped almost three months low as natural buy pressure helping the market to make some recovery. The market opened with a positive note and the uptrend continued till the market...
FE Online Report | 2014-03-20 00:00:00
The prices of most of the shares on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw positive trend in early hours of trading on Thursday, the last trading day of the week. DSEX, the prime index...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2014-03-20 00:00:00
A number of listed companies have gone out of operation for a considerable period of time, thus, depriving the general investors of their due, officials said. Officials at the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) said since the bourses had...
Badrul Ahsan | 2014-03-20 00:00:00
The country's as many as 15 jute mills have been shut down recently and many others are on the verge of closure because of lower demand of jute products and their price fall in the international market, industry people said....
Shamsul Huda | 2014-03-20 00:00:00
Instead of going abroad people suffering from acute or chronic leukaemia and blood cancer-related diseases will now be able to get bone marrow transplant treatment locally at a low cost. According to an estimate currently near about 300 patients go...
Maswood Alam Khan from Plano, Texas, USA | 2014-03-20 00:00:00
After deposing Pakistan's President Iskander Mirza on October 27, 1958 one of the first things Muhammad Ayub Khan did on formalising his military rule was a nationwide campaign that he had launched to cleanse the environment of homes and workplaces....
Abdul Bayes | 2014-03-20 00:00:00
Some researches have already reached the conclusion that, there exist an inverse relationship between farm size and productivity. Interest in the relationship between farm size and productivity (output per unit of land) is not new. It dates back to the...
SM Nasimul Haque | 2014-03-20 00:00:00
In my opinion as a retired airline pilot, the Houdini-style vanishing of the B-777 from midair with no trace of it to be found anywhere on the god-damned earth is a very costly joke. This scribe believes very firmly that...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-03-20 00:00:00
Crimea, the autonomous region of Ukraine, is now part of Russia. President Vladimir Putin of Russia and leaders of Crimea signed a treaty on Tuesday in this regard. Earlier, the referendum in Crimea took place, much to the delight of...
Number of jobless claims fall | 2014-03-20 00:00:00
LONDON, Mar 19 (Reuters) : Britain's jobless rate was stable in the three months to January, but the number of people claiming unemployment benefits fell more than expected and earnings showed signs of picking up. The jobless rate was unchanged...
Talha Bin Habib | 2014-03-20 00:00:00
The ministry of commerce (MoC) will ask the ministries concerned to fianalise the issues discussed during the just-concluded Bangladesh-India Joint Working Group (JWG) meeting in the city, a trade official said. Senior officials of both the countries at the JWG...
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